It Would Be Nice If We Could

When You Write A Program, Think Of It Primarily As A Work Of Literature. You're Trying To Write Something That Human Beings Are Going To Read. Don't Think Of It Primarily As Something A Computer Is Going To Follow. The More Effective You Are At Making Your Program Readable, The More Effective It's Going To Be: You'll Understand It Today, You'll Understand It Next Week, And Your Successors Who Are Going To Maintain And Modify It Will Understand It.

The Whole Thing That Makes A Mathematician’s Life Worthwhile Is That He Gets The Grudging Admiration Of Three Or Four Colleagues.

These Machines Have No Common Sense; They Have Not Yet Learned To "think," And They Do Exactly As They Are Told, No More And No Less. This Fact Is The Hardest Concept To Grasp When One First Tries To Use A Computer.

Whenever The C++ Language Designers Had Two Competing Ideas As To How They Should Solve Some Problem, They Said, "ok, We'll Do Them Both". So The Language Is Too Baroque For My Taste.

How Can You Own Numbers? Numbers Belong To The World.